Tuesday, January 27, 2009

crawling

We bought a package of socket plugs the other day and ordered a baby gate for the stairs. After many weeks of rocking around on her hands and knees and ending up high-centered on her belly, the girl is mobile. Lucy is very proud of herself, and also very determined.
Her pediatrician, Dr. Marks, was impressed last week during her 6 month checkup. He all but said she is a genius. OK, maybe not, but he did marvel at her two teeth, her strong legs, and her mad crawling skills. He also said he thinks we'll have our hands full with this one, and wasn't surprised that she's not sleeping well at night what with crossing all these developmental hurdles at record speed.
One week shy of six months, Lucy weighed in at 17.4 pounds and measures 26 inches long, hovering just above the 50th percentile for size.

2 comments:

Gina said...

Melissa, she is just so cute! I really see both you and Joel in her. What a fun new chapter (well guess it's not "new" since you have been through this twice before, but it's been a while) :) Not sure if you heard but I too will be the mom of two boys- we found out this time around and yep, another boy! I'm in a bit of shock as I always envisioned girls, so if you find a free moment, tell me all the wonderful things about having 2 boys, 2 years apart! :)

a boxer and a baby said...

Holy shit! She's got some mad skills to be sure!! And she could not be more adorable... can't wait to meet her in April. She'll be walking circles around our little lump of a babe by then :)